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John McEnery (March 31, 1833, Petersburg, Virginia – March 28, 1891) was a Louisiana Democratic politician and lawyer who was considered by Democrats to be the winner of the highly contested 1872 election for Governor of Louisiana.
In 1872 John McEnery was elected governor in one of the most controversial and bizarre elections in Louisiana history. Though Governor Henry Clay Warmoth declared McEnery the victor, the state elections returning board split into two rival panels after the election.
How He Became Governor: Legally elected in 1872, but not permitted to serve by Federal authorities. Career after Term: Returned to his law practice. Died: March 28, 1891 in New Orleans. In the election of 1872 John McEnery, a Democrat, faced Republican William Pitt Kellogg.
24 de mai. de 2017 · A photograph of John McEnery, a Democratic politician in Louisiana who contended after the election of 1872 that the governorship had been stolen from him by Reconstruction-era Republicans....
JOHN MCENERY was born in Petersburg, Virginia on March 31, 1833. He was educated at Hanover College in Indiana, and at Tulane University, from which he earned a law degree. During the Civil War, he served as captain of Company B, 4 th Battalion of the Louisiana
21 de abr. de 2023 · The confrontation’s origins lay in Louisiana’s troubled gubernatorial election of 1872, which pitted Democratic-Conservative “Fusion” candidates John McEnery and Davidson Bradfute Penn against a Republican ticket headed by US senator William Pitt Kellogg and Caesar Carpentier Antoine.
17 de nov. de 2022 · Thomas Nast. "The Union As It Was" by Thomas Nast, Harpers's Weekly, 1874. A paramilitary organization aligned with the Democratic Party, the White League played a central role in the overthrow of Republican rule and intimidation of African Americans in Louisiana during Reconstruction.
